Paint vs. Distemper — What's the Difference?

Paint is any pigmented liquid, liquefiable, or solid mastic composition that, after application to a substrate in a thin layer, converts to a solid film. It is most commonly used to protect, color, or provide texture to objects.

Canine distemper.

A liquid mixture, usually of a solid pigment in a liquid vehicle, used as a decorative or protective coating.

Feline panleukopenia.

The thin dry film formed by such a mixture when applied to a surface.

An illness or disease; an ailment

The solid pigment before it is mixed with a vehicle.

Ill humor; testiness.

A cosmetic, such as rouge, that is used to give color to the face; makeup.

Disorder or disturbance, especially of a social or political nature.

(Basketball) The free throw lane.

A process of painting in which pigments are mixed with water and a glue-size or casein binder, used for flat wall decoration or scenic and poster painting.

A Paint horse.

The paint used in this process.

(Slang) The face cards in a deck of cards

A painting made by this process.

To make (a picture) with paints.

To put out of order.

To represent in a picture with paints.

(Archaic) To unsettle; derange.

To depict vividly in words.

To mix (powdered pigments or colors) with water and size.

To coat or decorate with paint

To paint (a work) in distemper.

To apply cosmetics to.

A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.

To apply medicine to; swab

(archaic) A disorder of the humours of the body; a disease.

To shine a laser beam on, especially in order to designate a target for laser-guided munitions.

A glue-based paint.

To practice the art of painting pictures.

(countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.

To cover something with paint.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

To apply cosmetics to oneself

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

To serve as a surface to be coated with paint

To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.

A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds color/colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

To intoxicate.

(in the plural) A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

To paint using distemper.

The free-throw lane, construed with the.

To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.

Paintballs.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

A face card (king, queen, or jack).

To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.

Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.

To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.

(uncountable) Makeup.

To intoxicate.

Tattoo work.

To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.

(dated) Any substance fixed with latex to harden it.

An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.

The appearance of an object on a radar screen.

Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.

(transitive) To apply paint to.

A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; - at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.

(transitive) To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.

To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.

Political disorder; tumult.

(transitive) To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

(transitive) To create (an image) with paints.

Any of various infectious viral diseases of animals

(intransitive) To practise the art of painting pictures.

An angry and disagreeable mood

To draw an element in a graphical user interface.

Paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder

To depict or portray.

A painting created by distemper

(intransitive) To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

A method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery

To direct a radar beam toward.

Paint with distemper

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

To color, stain, or tinge; to adorn or beautify with colors; to diversify with colors.

To form in colors a figure or likeness of on a flat surface, as upon canvas; to represent by means of colors or hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

To represent or exhibit to the mind; to describe vividly; to delineate; to image; to depict; as, to paint a political opponent as a traitor.

To practice the art of painting; as, the artist paints well.

To color one's face by way of beautifying it.

A pigment or coloring substance.

A cosmetic; rouge.

A substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating

(basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court;

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

Make a painting;

Apply paint to; coat with paint;

Make a painting of;

Apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil